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Spreading the water wealth
McCully, Patrick Pottinger, Lori
McCully, Patrick
Pottinger, Lori
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"Want of clean water, decent sanitation, and adequate food and energy strips people of their dignity and their most basic rights. Inequitable access to water, especially for growing crops, is a major factor in global poverty and a death sentence for millions each year. According to the World Bank, “[t]he ‘easy and cheap’ options for mobilizing water resources for human needs have mostly been exploited.” If the World Bank were right, this would be a depressing message for the 1.1 billion people without easy access to safe water. The good news is, the Bank is wrong. Many technologically easy and relatively cheap options for water provision exist that can help lift hundreds of millions of people out of poverty, end widespread hunger, and reduce the daily workload of women and children. The bad news is that the World Bank-led large-dam lobby is aggressively supporting a resurgence in water mega-project. " (p. 1)
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2009
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